Artist: Jacques Villon (Gaston Duchamp, dit) (1875-1963)
Title: La Pédicure (The Pedicure)
Size/Dimensions: 7 x 10 inches
Frame type/size: Giltwood frame 15 7/8 x 12 ¾ inches, matted behind glass
Medium: Etching on japan paper
Date created or painted: 1907
Signed: Pencil signed lower right. Titled illegibly lower left. Signed in the plate.
Numbered: no
Provenance: Ader Norman, Paris, France 
Reference: Artists proof, Ginestet and Pouillon 195, final state of 50
This etching has been professionally conserved and framed in archival materials
 
Born Gaston Duchamp, Villon was a Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker. To distinguish himself from his artist siblings, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp, and Raymond Duchamp, he adopted the pseudonym of Jacques Villon as a tribute to the medieval poet Francois Villon. He produced many cartoons and illustrations for the Parisian newspapers and the satirical weekly, Le Courrier Francais. He was named Commander of the Legion of Honor and received the Carnegie Prize, the highest award for painting in the world. His works can be seen at the Fine Arts Museums of SF, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Museum of Fine arts Boston, Museum of Modern Art in NYC, National Gallery in DC, Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris, and many others.